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US8291339B2
US8291339B2 US11/964,760 US96476007A US8291339B2 US 8291339 B2 US8291339 B2 US 8291339B2 US 96476007 A US96476007 A US 96476007A US 8291339 B2 US8291339 B2 US 8291339B2
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  • the present invention relates to a computer-readable recording medium storing a display control program, and a display control device. More particularly, it relates to a technology of allowing a display device to sequentially switch displays of a plurality of screens.
  • the present invention was made in aim of solving the above-described problems, and its object is to make it easier to confirm and handle data on each screen when displays of a plurality of screens are switched sequentially on a display portion such as a display.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a personal computer (hereinafter, referred to as PC) in which a display control program in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is installed.
  • PC personal computer
  • FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a first embodiment of a screen display switching processing executed by the PC.
  • FIG. 3 shows an example of a screen display of a display portion.
  • FIG. 4 shows an example of a screen display of the display portion.
  • FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a second embodiment of the display switching processing.
  • FIGS. 6A and 6B show examples of a screen display of the display portion.
  • FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing a third embodiment of the display switching processing.
  • FIGS. 8A , 8 B, and 8 C show examples of a screen display of the display portion.
  • FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a fourth embodiment of the screen display switching processing.
  • FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a fifth embodiment of the display switching processing.
  • FIGS. 11A and 11B show examples of a screen display of the display portion.
  • FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a second embodiment of a transmissive display processing.
  • FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing a third embodiment of the transmissive display processing.
  • FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing a fourth embodiment of the transmissive display processing.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a schematic configuration of a personal computer (an embodiment of an electronic equipment in accordance with the present invention, and it is referred to as PC hereinafter) in which a display control program in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is installed.
  • PC an embodiment of an electronic equipment in accordance with the present invention, and it is referred to as PC hereinafter
  • a PC 1 is connected to a printer 20 through a parallel cable such as a Centronics interface, a LAN (Local Area Network) cable, or a serial cable such as an RS-232C, and print data outputted from the PC 1 is printed on a recording sheet by the printer 20 .
  • a communication I/F 160 serves as a LAN interface, a parallel I/F portion, or a serial I/F portion.
  • the printer 20 is not limited to a printer but may include various apparatuses having a printer function such as a complex machine having a facsimile function, a printer function, and a copying function, and a facsimile machine.
  • the PC 1 includes, in addition to the communication I/F 160 , a CPU 100 , a ROM (Read Only Memory) 110 , a RAM (Random Access Memory) 120 , a recording medium reading device 130 , an operating section (input device) 140 , a display portion 150 , and a storage device 200 .
  • the ROM 110 stores a BIOS (basic input/output system) which is a basic program for controlling peripheral devices such as the storage device 200 and the recording medium reading device 130 .
  • BIOS basic input/output system
  • the RAM 120 serves as a working area of the CPU 100 and temporarily stores various data.
  • the recording medium reading device 130 reads out various data stored in a computer-readable recording medium such as a CD-ROM, a flexible disk, and a DVD (Digital Versatile Disk).
  • the operating portion 140 includes a keyboard, a mouse, and the like.
  • the operating portion 140 receives an operating instruction from a user and outputs electric signals to the CPU 100 in accordance with the operating instruction.
  • the display portion 150 is composed of a liquid crystal panel, a CRT (Cathode-Ray Tube) or the like to display various images under a control of the CPU 100 .
  • the storage device 200 is composed of a magnetic disc and the like and stores an operating system, which is a basic program for an integrated control of the personal computer, and a display control program in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention.
  • This display control program renders the CPU 100 to execute a display switching processing of screens at a time when the display portion 150 displays a plurality of screens (the screens may be of different kinds of applications respectively, or may be a plurality of screens provided in one kind of application, and it will be the same hereinafter).
  • the display control program is stored in a computer-readable recording medium such as a CD-ROM and a flexible disk
  • the computer-readable recording medium mounted to the recording medium reading device 130 so that the display control program is installed and stored in the storage device 200 .
  • the display control program may be downloaded from the WEB server so that the program is stored in the storage device 200 .
  • the CPU 100 executes the display control program under a control of the operating system so that it serves as a display controlling portion (display controller) 101 , a setting change receiving portion (setting change receiver) 102 , a display instruction receiving portion (display instruction receiver) 103 , a display part receiving portion (display part receiver) 104 , an area specifying instruction receiving portion (area specifying instruction receiver) 105 , and a priority order receiving portion (priority order receiver) 106 . Further, the CPU 100 serves also as a controller 107 and an output portion 108 .
  • the display controlling portion 101 controls a display operation of the display portion 150 .
  • the display controlling portion 101 is capable of displaying a plurality of screens. Each of the plurality of screens has at least one item whose set value is changeable in accordance with an instruction inputted to the operating section 140 by an operator.
  • the display controlling portion 101 sequentially switches displays of the screens and allows the display portion 150 to display the same.
  • the display controlling portion 101 switches a currently displayed screen to another screen after a set value of an item which is displayed on any one of the plurality of screens is changed in accordance with a setting change instruction inputted by an operator through the operating section 140 and received by the setting change receiving portion 102 , it transmissively displays a display part of the item whose set value is most recently changed in the screen whose set value is changed (previously displayed screen) on the another screen (subsequently displayed screen). This transmissive display will be described in detail hereinafter.
  • the display controlling portion 101 executes a control of allowing a predetermined part of the previously displayed screen to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen at a time of switching of the plurality of screens.
  • the setting change receiving portion 102 receives from an operator an instruction of changing a set value of each item of a currently displayed screen when the display controlling portion 101 allows the display portion 150 to display any one of the plurality of screens.
  • This set value changing instruction is inputted by an operator to the setting change receiving portion 102 through an operation of the operating section 140 .
  • the display instruction receiving portion 103 receives from an operator an instruction of transmissively displaying a certain number of most recently changed items among items whose set values are changed before the time of switching of the display screen executed by the display controlling portion 101 .
  • This set value changing instruction is inputted by an operator to the display instruction receiving portion 103 through an operation of the operating section 140 .
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows a display part of each item of a previously displayed screen indicated by an instruction received by the display instruction receiving portion 103 to be transmissively displayed on a subsequently displayed screen at the time of execution of the display switching of the screens.
  • the display part receiving portion 104 receives from an operator an instruction of specifying a part of the previously displayed screen to be transmissively displayed. This set value changing instruction is inputted by an operator to the display part receiving portion 104 through an operation of the operating section 140 .
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows a part of the previously displayed screen indicated by the instruction to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen when the display part receiving portion 104 receives an instruction of specifying the part to be transmissively displayed at the time of execution of the display switching of the screens.
  • the area specifying instruction receiving portion 105 receives from an operator an instruction of specifying a preferential display area in a subsequently displayed screen. In the preferential display area, the transmissive display is not executed, and data which should be originally displayed on the subsequently displayed screen is preferentially displayed. This area specifying instruction is inputted by an operator to the area specifying instruction receiving portion 105 through an operation of the operating section 140 .
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows the transmissive display not to be executed in the area indicated by the instruction received by the area specifying instruction receiving portion 105 at the time of execution of the display switching of the screens.
  • the priority order receiving portion 106 receives from an operator an instruction of setting display priority orders of the screens which are to be displayed by the display portion 150 .
  • This setting instruction is inputted by an operator to the priority order receiving portion 106 through an operation of the operating section 140 .
  • the display controlling portion 101 determines whether or not the transmissive display is to be executed in accordance with the priority orders indicated by the instruction received by the priority order receiving portion 106 at the time of execution of the display switching of the screens. In other words, the display controlling portion 101 allows the transmissive display to be executed when the priority orders indicated by the instruction received by the priority order receiving portion 106 show that the previously displayed screen has a higher priority order than that of the subsequently displayed screen at the time of execution of the display switching of the screens.
  • the controller 107 executes an overall operational control of the PC 1 , and it executes various controls necessary for a printing processing in accordance with an instruction inputted by an operator through the operating section 140 . Further, the output portion 108 outputs data applied with a data conversion, which is a processing necessary for printing by an unillustrated printer-printing data converting portion, to the printer 20 through the communication I/F 160 .
  • a display control device in accordance with the embodiments of the present invention includes, for example, the display portion 150 and the CPU 100 (necessary functions among the display controlling portion 101 , the setting change receiving portion 102 , the display instruction receiving portion 103 , the display part receiving portion 104 , the area specifying instruction receiving portion 105 , and the priority order receiving portion 106 ).
  • FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the first embodiment of the screen display switching processing executed by the PC 1 .
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show examples of the screen display of the display portion 150 .
  • the CPU 100 runs two applications, for example, a word processor and a spread sheet (S 1 ), and the display controlling portion 101 allows the display portion 150 to display a screen M of the spread sheet (S 2 ) as shown in FIG. 3 , and the setting change receiving portion 102 receives a set value changing instruction from an operator through an operation of the operating section 140 (YES in S 3 ), the CPU 100 changes a set value of an item whose setting should be changed in accordance with the changing instruction (S 4 ). For example, when an operator newly inputs a numerical value or a character to a certain cell (item) while the screen M of the spread sheet is displayed, the controller 107 changes a set value of the cell to the newly inputted numerical value or character.
  • the controller 107 changes a set value of the cell to the newly inputted numerical value or character.
  • the display controlling portion 101 determines whether or not a set value is changed in the previously displayed application screen (here, it is the screen of the spread sheet) (S 6 ). For example, if an operator operates a mouse to click a display part of an illustrated task bar indicating the word processor in a state where the display controlling portion 101 allows the display portion 150 to display the screen of the spread sheet as described above, the display controlling portion 101 determines whether or not the set value is changed.
  • the display controlling portion 101 determines that the set value is not changed in the previously displayed application screen (NO in S 6 ), it allows the display portion 150 to display another application screen which instructed to be displayed as the subsequently displayed screen (S 9 ). For example, the display controlling portion 101 switches the display screen of the display portion 150 from the previously displayed screen of the spread sheet to the screen of the word processor which is instructed to be displayed.
  • the display controlling portion 101 determines that a set value is changed in the previously displayed application screen (YES in S 6 ), it allows the display portion 150 to display an application screen which is instructed to be displayed in accordance with the switching instruction, while allowing a certain number “n” (n is a predetermined numerical value) of most recently changed items, whose respective set values are changed before the time of screen display switching, to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen (S 7 ). For example, as shown in FIG.
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows the screen P of the word processor as a subsequently displayed screen to be displayed on the uppermost layer, and allows the screen M of the previously displayed spread sheet to be hidden or allows at least a part of the screen M overlapping the screen P of the word processor to be hidden.
  • a display part of the item whose set value is changed as described above (a cell and the like in which a numerical value or character is newly inputted) is displayed on the screen P of the word processor as a transmissive display part N′. This enables an operator to see the cell, into which a numerical value or character is newly inputted in the screen M of the spread sheet, transmissively through the screen P of the word processor.
  • the display controlling portion 101 measures elapsed time from the time of starting the transmissive display by means of an unillustrated timer provided in the CPU 100 .
  • a predetermined time elapses for example, 5 secs-600 secs
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows the transmissive display part in the subsequently displayed application screen to be hidden, and allows the display portion 150 to display the whole application screen instructed to be displayed as a subsequently displayed screen (S 9 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows the display portion 150 to display the transmissive display part N′ in a decorated form emphasizing in a manner such that the transmissive display part N′ shows a screen provided in a lower layer (lower side or rear side screen).
  • the transmissive display part N′ is surrounded by a frame, made different in color from other parts, displayed in blinking, or made thinner in density (in other words, brightness is lowered). This enables an operator to easily distinguish that the transmissive display part N′ is not data which is handled in the subsequently displayed screen (in the example above, it is the screen P of the word processor) but data of the previously displayed screen (in the example above, it is the screen M of the spread sheet). The same will be applied to the transmissive display parts shown in the embodiments described hereinafter.
  • the display controlling portion 101 may allow the brightness of the transmissive display parts in the screens to be higher (allow the density to get higher) as the layers of the screens goes from a lower layer to a higher layer when a plurality of screens are displayed in an overlapping manner while accompanied by the transmissive display.
  • FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing the second embodiment of the display switching processing.
  • FIGS. 6A and 6B show examples of the screen display of the display portion 150 . It should be understood that the processing which are the same as those of the first embodiment described with reference to FIG. 2 will be identified with the same reference numerals, and descriptions of those will be omitted.
  • the display controlling portion 101 switches displays of screens of different applications.
  • the display controlling portion 101 executes the screen display switching processing to a plurality of screens provided in one application.
  • the display controlling portion 101 determines whether or not a set value is changed in the previously displayed screen (here, it is the first screen R 1 ) (S 16 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 determines whether or not the set value is changed in the first screen R 1 .
  • the display controlling portion 101 determines that the set value is not changed in the previously displayed screen (NO in S 16 ), it does not execute the transmissive display and allows the display portion 150 to display another screen instructed to be displayed as a subsequently displayed screen (S 19 ). For example, the display controlling portion 101 switches the display screen of the display portion 150 from the previously displayed first screen R 1 to the second screen R 2 instructed to be displayed as a subsequently displayed screen.
  • the display controlling portion 101 determines that a set value is changed in the previously displayed screen (YES in S 16 ), it allows the display portion 150 to display another screen which is instructed to be displayed as a subsequently screen, while allowing a certain number “n” (“n” is a predetermined numerical value) of most recently changed items, whose set values are changed in the past before the time of screen display switching, to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen (S 17 ).
  • n is a predetermined numerical value
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows a display part of the item whose set value is changed as described above (a cell and the like in which a numerical value or character is newly inputted) to be displayed as a transmissive display part N′ on the second screen R 2 .
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows a certain number “n” (“n” is a predetermined numerical value) of most recently changed items, whose set values are changed before the time of screen display switching, to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen.
  • n is a predetermined numerical value
  • the display controlling portion 101 may allow only one item, whose set value is most recently changed before the time of screen display switching, to be transmissively displayed, or (3) the display controlling portion 101 may allow all of the items, whose respective set values are changed in the past before the time of screen display switching, to be transmissive displayed.
  • FIG. 7 is a flowchart showing the third embodiment of the display switching processing.
  • FIGS. 8A , 8 B, and 8 C show examples of the screen display of the display portion 150 . It should be understood that the processing which are the same as those of the first and second embodiments described with reference to FIGS. 2 and 5 will be identified with the same reference numerals, and descriptions of those will be omitted.
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows a display part of an item, whose set value is changed in a previously displayed screen, to be transmissively displayed on a subsequently displayed screen.
  • the display controlling portion 101 stores information of a specified part which is predetermined in a previously displayed screen and transmissively displayed on a subsequently displayed screen.
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows the specified part, which is predetermined in the previously displayed screen, to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen in accordance with the specified part information.
  • the third embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. 7 .
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows the display portion 150 to display a screen M of the spread sheet as shown in FIG. 3 (S 2 ), and an operator operates the operating section 140 to input an instruction of switching the applications (YES in S 5 ), the display controlling portion 101 specifies in accordance with the specified part information a part M′ ( FIG. 8A ) of the previously displayed screen which is predetermined as a part to be transmissively displayed.
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows the display portion 150 to display another screen while allowing the part M′ to be transmissively displayed on the another screen instructed to be displayed as a subsequently displayed screen, for example, the screen P of the word processor ( FIG. 8B , S 24 in FIG. 7 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 executes the transmissive display as shown in FIG. 8B when the predetermined part exists at a hidden part of the screen M of the previously displayed spread sheet onto which the screen P of the word processor overlaps.
  • the display controlling portion 101 does not execute the transmissive display but allows the display portion 150 to display only the screen P of the word processor as shown in FIG. 8B when the predetermined part does not exist at a hidden part of the screen M of the previously displayed spread sheet onto which the screen P of the word processor overlaps.
  • FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing the fourth embodiment of the screen display switching processing. It should be understood that descriptions of the processing which are the same as those of the first through third embodiments will be omitted.
  • the display controlling portion 101 executes switching of displays of screens of different applications. However, in the display switching control in accordance with the fourth embodiment, the display controlling portion 101 executes display switching of a plurality of screens provided in one application.
  • the display controlling portion 101 When the CPU 100 runs a single application, for example, a spread sheet (S 11 ), and the display controlling portion 101 allows the display portion 150 to display the first screen R 1 as shown in FIG. 6A (S 12 ), and an operator operates the operating section 140 to input an instruction of switching to another second screen R 2 (YES in S 15 ), the display controlling portion 101 specifies a predetermined part of the previously displayed screen R 1 as a part to be transmissively displayed in accordance with specified part information which it stores, and then allows the display portion 150 to display the second screen R 2 and transmissively display the specified part on the second screen R 2 which is instructed to be displayed as a subsequently displayed screen (S 34 ).
  • FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a fifth embodiment of the display switching processing.
  • FIGS. 11A and 11B show examples of the screen display of the display portion 150 . It should be understood that descriptions of processing which are the same as those of the first through fourth embodiments will be omitted.
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows a specified part of a previously displayed screen to be transmissively displayed on a subsequently displayed screen.
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows a display part of original data of a previously displayed application screen used for the moving processing or copying processing to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed application screen as the specified part.
  • the display controlling portion 101 When an operator operates the operating section 140 to input an instruction of switching the application (YES in S 5 ), the display controlling portion 101 allows the display portion 150 to display an application screen instructed to be displayed, for example, the screen P of the word processor (S 35 ). After this switching of display, the display controlling portion 101 detects whether or not the data of the previously displayed screen is pasted on the subsequently displayed screen P by the moving processing or copying processing as shown in FIG. 11A (S 36 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows a display part M 1 of original data of the previously displayed application screen, which is hidden behind the subsequently displayed application screen (the screen P of the word processor) at this point of time and used for the moving processing and copying processing, to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed application screen as shown in FIG. 11B (S 37 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 switches displays of screens of different applications.
  • the display controlling portion 101 executes the display switching of a plurality of screens provided in one application, the original data used for the moving processing or copying processing can be transmissively displayed by a similar processing.
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows the original data used for the moving processing or copying processing to be transmissively displayed.
  • the data can be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen by the processing similar to that described above even though the data is not original data used for the moving processing or copying processing.
  • FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing a second embodiment of the transmissive display processing. It should be understood the transmissive display processing according to each embodiment is applied at a time of executing S 24 of the third embodiment shown in FIG. 7 , S 24 of the fourth embodiment shown in FIG. 9 , and S 37 of the fifth embodiment shown in FIG. 10 .
  • the display controlling portion 101 determines whether or not data which should be displayed on the subsequently displayed screen exists at a part of the subsequently displayed screen where the transmissive display processing is to be executed when the display controlling portion 101 executes the transmissive display processing (S 51 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 does not execute the above-described transmissive display, and it allows the data which should be displayed on the subsequently displayed screen to be preferentially displayed (S 52 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows the predetermined part of the previously displayed screen to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen (S 53 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 does not execute the above-described transmissive display when the data which should be displayed exists at a part of the subsequently displayed screen where the transmissive display processing is to be executed.
  • the above-described transmissive display is not executed within a predetermined area close to the area where the data which should be displayed exists.
  • the predetermined area in which the transmissive display is prohibited can be properly changed by an operator by an instruction which is inputted by the operator through an operation of the operating section 140 .
  • FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing the third embodiment of the transmissive display processing.
  • the display controlling portion 101 stores priority order information with respect to other screen respectively for each application screen or each of screens provided in one application. Further, as shown in FIG. 13 , at a time of execution of the transmissive display processing, the display controlling portion 101 determines in accordance with priority order information of each of the previously displayed screen and subsequently displayed screen (S 61 ), whether or not a priority order of the previously displayed screen is higher than a priority order of the subsequently displayed screen (S 62 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows the predetermined part of the previously displayed screen to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen (S 64 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 does not execute the above-described transmissive display, and it allows the subsequently displayed screen to be displayed preferentially (S 63 ).
  • FIG. 14 is a flowchart showing the fourth embodiment of the transmissive display processing.
  • the display controlling portion 101 stores information of areas at which the transmissive display is prohibited. The information is stored for each application screen or each of screens provided in one application. Further, as shown in FIG. 14 , at a time of execution of the transmissive display processing, the display controlling portion 101 reads out information of area at which the transmissive display is prohibited, and it determines whether or not a part of the subsequently displayed screen where the transmissive display is to be executed is the area at which the transmissive display is prohibited (S 71 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 When the part of the subsequently displayed screen at which the transmissive display is prohibited is an area where the transmissive display is prohibited (YES in S 71 ), the display controlling portion 101 does not execute the above-described transmissive display, and it allows the subsequently displayed screen to be displayed preferentially (S 72 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows the predetermined part of the previously displayed screen to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen (S 73 ).
  • the display controlling portion 101 executes the transmissive display for a predetermined time. However, this control may be omitted.
  • the transmissive display may be executed on the subsequently displayed screen while the subsequently displayed screen is displayed.
  • the display controlling portion 101 allows a predetermined part of a previously displayed screen to be transmissively displayed on a subsequently displayed screen.
  • the predetermined part is not limited to indicate a position or area, and it may be a predetermined character or sign, or a display configuration such as bold lines, underlines, a predetermined color, and a predetermined font, and characters, signs, and numerals of a predetermined size. Further, it may be so configured that setting of the predetermined display configuration can be properly changed by an operator with an instruction inputted by the operator through an operation of the operating section 140 .
  • FIGS. 4 , 6 , 8 and 11 show examples of the transmissive display (display in a transmissive manner) executed by the display controlling portion 101 .
  • the transmissive display includes at least a meaning of superimposing displays of a previous screen display and a subsequent screen display at a time when screens overlaps with each other, and a meaning of not displaying a front screen but only a rear screen transmissively.
  • the personal computer 1 is described as an electronic equipment in accordance with the embodiments of the present invention.
  • an electronic equipment in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is not limited to a personal computer.
  • the electronic equipment in accordance with the present invention includes at least a personal computer, a mobile phone, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistants), a digital watch, a printer, a copying machine, a facsimile machine, a complex machine, a digital camera, a TV, a video player, an audio player, a microwave oven, a refrigerator, an ATM (Automated Teller Machine), and a car navigation system, and it goes without saying that the present invention can be applied to these electronic equipments.
  • PDA Personal Digital Assistants
  • a digital watch includes at least a personal computer, a mobile phone, a PDA (Personal Digital Assistants), a digital watch, a printer, a copying machine, a facsimile machine, a complex machine, a digital camera, a TV, a video player,
  • FIGS. 1 through 14 configurations and controls of a display control program, a display device, and a display control method in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention is described with reference to FIGS. 1 through 14 .
  • these are mere examples, and there is no meaning of limiting the display control program, the display control device, and the display control method in accordance with the present invention to the above-described configurations and controls.
  • the present invention includes a computer-readable recording medium which stores a display control program for rendering a display portion of an electronic equipment to display a plurality of screens, the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function as: a display controller which switches display of the plurality of screens, each screen enabling an operator to change a set value of at least one item; and a setting change receiver which receives from the operator an instruction of changing a set value of each item included in a currently displayed screen when the display controller allows the display portion to display one of the plurality of screens.
  • the display controller When the currently displayed screen is switched to another screen after a set value of an item included in one of the plurality of screens is changed in accordance with the setting change instruction received by the setting change receiver, the display controller allows a display part of the item whose set value is changed most recently in the screen whose set value is changed to be transmissively displayed on the another screen displayed after the switching of display.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function so that the switching of display of the plurality of screens is performed as switching of screens of different applications.
  • a display part of the item whose set value is changed most recently in the currently displayed screen is transmissively displayed on the another screen which is displayed after the switching of display. Accordingly, even in a case where a plurality of screens are successively switched and displayed on the display portion of the electronic equipment, the set value which is changed most recently in the previously displayed screen can be easily confirmed and handled.
  • the display control program further renders the electronic equipment to function as: a display instruction receiver for receiving from the operator an instruction of transmissively displaying a certain number of most recently changed items among items whose respective set values are changed at a time of the switching of display.
  • the display controller allows the items which are indicated by the instruction received by the display instruction receiver to be transmissively displayed.
  • the display controller executes the switching of screens of the display portion, the plurality of items changed most recently are transmissively displayed. Accordingly, a user can desirably set the number of items which are to be transmissively displayed and a time range of the changes.
  • the present invention includes a computer-readable recording medium which stores a display control program for rendering a display portion of an electronic equipment to display a plurality of screens.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function as: a display controller which switches display of the plurality of screens and allows the display portion to transmissively display a predetermined part of a previously displayed screen on a subsequently displayed screen at the time of switching the screens.
  • a predetermined part of a previously displayed screen is transmissively displayed on a subsequently displayed screen. Accordingly, even in a case where a plurality of screens are successively switched to be displayed on the display portion of the electronic equipment, a part of a display of a previously displayed screen can be easily confirmed and handled on a subsequently displayed screen.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function as: a display part receiver which receives from an operator an instruction of specifying a part of the previously displayed screen which is to be transmissively displayed.
  • the display controller allows the part included in the previously displayed screen and indicated by the instruction received by the display part receiver to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen at the time of switching of the screens.
  • a user's desirable part in the previously displayed screen can be set so that the part can be changed to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function so that when the subsequently displayed screen includes data associated with the previously displayed screen, the display controller allows a display part of the associated data of the previously displayed screen to be transmissively displayed as the predetermined part.
  • a display part of data associated with data of the previously displayed screen is transmissively displayed on a subsequently displayed screen. Accordingly, even in a case where a plurality of screens are successively switched to be displayed on the display portion of the electronic equipment, an operator can easily confirm or handle associated data of the previously displayed screen and the subsequently displayed screen.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function so that the display controller allows the data of the previously displayed screen being original data, which is applied with a moving processing or a copying processing, to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed as the associated data.
  • the data of the previously displayed screen being original data, which is applied with a moving processing or a copying processing, is transmissively displayed. Accordingly, an operator can easily confirm and handle the original data which is applied with a moving processing or a copying processing without performing an operation of referring back to a previously displayed screen.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function so that when a part or a peripheral part of the subsequently displayed screen on which the transmissive display is to be executed is instructed as a part on which data is to be displayed on the subsequently displayed screen, the display controller does not execute the transmissive display but gives a priority to display of data which is to be displayed on the subsequently displayed screen.
  • the display controller does not execute the transmissive display at a part or a peripheral part of the subsequently displayed screen, but execute display of data to be displayed on a subsequently displayed screen preferentially the data which is to be displayed on the subsequently displayed screen. Accordingly, it can avoid a case where the data to be displayed on the subsequently displayed screen is not displayed by the transmissive display and an operator cannot confirm the data.
  • the display control program further renders the electronic equipment to function as: an area specifying instruction receiver for receiving from an operator an instruction of specifying an area of a preferential display part on the subsequently displayed screen, and the display controller allows the transmissive display to be not executed on an area which is indicated by the instruction received by the area specifying instruction receiver at the time of the display switching.
  • an operator can desirably specify an area of a preferential display part on the subsequently displayed screen without executing the transmissive display on the subsequently displayed display screen by the area specifying instruction receiver.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function so that the display part receiver receives the display part formed of a display configuration specified by the operator as the predetermined part to be transmissively displayed.
  • an operator can specify so that a part to be displayed in a specific display configuration in the previously displayed screen to be transmissively displayed on the subsequently displayed screen by the display part receiver.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function so that when the display controller allows screens having respective priority order information to be superimposedly displayed by the display switching, and a priority order of the previously displayed screen is higher than a priority order of the subsequently displayed screen, the display controller executes the transmissive display.
  • visibility of data displayed on the subsequently displayed screen can be secured in accordance with the priority order, and confirming and handling of data of the previously displayed screen by the transmissive display becomes easy.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function as: a priority order receiver for receiving from an operator an instruction of setting the priority orders.
  • a priority order receiver for receiving from an operator an instruction of setting the priority orders.
  • an operator can desirably set by the priority order receiver whether or not the transmissive display is to be executed at a time when the screens are displayed in superimposition with each other.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function so that when a part of the subsequently displayed screen at which the transmissive display is to be executed is a predetermined part set in advance, the display controller executes the transmissive display.
  • the display controller allows the transmissive display to be executed only at a predetermined part on the subsequently displayed screen. Accordingly, the part at which the transmissive display is executed and the part at which the transmissive display is not executed can be divided.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function so that the display controller executes the transmissive display for a predetermined time.
  • the display controller executes the transmissive display for a predetermined time on the subsequently displayed screen. Accordingly, a time during which the transmissive display is executed can be controlled.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function so that the display controller makes a display form of the transmissively displayed part to be different from other parts.
  • the display form of the transmissively displayed part is different from other parts. Accordingly, an operator can easily distinguish that the transmissively displayed part is not the data handled in the subsequently displayed screen but data of the previously displayed screen.
  • the display control program renders the electronic equipment to function so that the display controller allows the plurality of screens to be displayed in superimposition along with the transmissive display in a manner such that a brightness of the transmissive display part becomes higher as it goes from a screen in a lower layer to a screen in a higher layer.
  • the plurality of screens are displayed in superimposition along with the transmissive display in a manner such that a brightness of the transmissive display part becomes higher as it goes from a screen in a lower layer to a screen in a higher layer. Accordingly, an operator can understand a history of processing applied to data displayed in the transmissively displayed part in accordance with a brightness of the transmissively displayed part.
  • the history includes which of the screens the data displayed in the transmissively displayed part is processed, and in which previously operated screen data of the transmissively displayed part is processed.
  • the present invention includes a display control device comprising: a display portion which displays a plurality of screens; and a display controller which switches displays of the plurality of screens by the display portion, the display controller allowing a predetermined part of a previously displayed screen to be displayed on a subsequently displayed screen at the time of switching the screens.
  • the display control device further comprises: a setting change receiver which receives from the operator an instruction of changing a set value of each item included in a currently displayed screen when the display controller allows the display portion to display one of the plurality of screens.
  • a setting change receiver which receives from the operator an instruction of changing a set value of each item included in a currently displayed screen when the display controller allows the display portion to display one of the plurality of screens.
  • the display controller allows the switching of display of the plurality of screens to be performed as switching of screens of different applications.

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